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The Story of Andersonville Prison

The story of the prisons of the Civil War is a very sad one. Thousands of men died from disease and starvation, in some of the worse conditions of the war. In this video, join us at Camp Sumter, in Andersonville, Georgia, one of the worst of the Civil War prison camps.

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